WASHINGTON –
Highlighting the experiences of successful entrepreneurs, the U.S. Small Business
Administration and Dell today launched an online video series offering tools and
strategies to help small business owners rebound from the economic recession and
put themselves in a position to expand and create jobs.
Strategies
for Growth: Advice for Expanding Your Business includes real-world insight,
solutions and advice from small business owners who’ve succeeded, in good
and bad economic times. Additionally, the series draws on the expertise of counselors,
policy makers and others for accessing resources and tools available to small
business owners.
“Some of the best advice a small business
owner can get is from other small business owners who’ve been in their shoes,”
SBA Administrator Karen G. Mills said. “They’ve dealt with the day-to-day
challenges and found ways that worked for them to meet those challenges, pursue
their life’s dream and grow their business. This video series brings those
real-life experiences together, along with information on other valuable resources
and opportunities, in a way that will help other small business owners chart their
own path to success.”
The Strategies for Growth
partnership with Dell was announced today at a National Press Club luncheon where
Administrator Mills discussed the outlook for small business and the economy in
the coming year, including the Administration’s efforts to boost the small
business sector and to drive economic recovery through public-private partnerships.
Joining
Administrator Mills for the announcement was Dell’s Vice President of Government
Affairs Becca Gould.
“For Dell, partnering with groups
like the SBA to share solutions for success is a significant way we support small
businesses,” said Becca Gould, vice president, Dell Government Affairs. “By
featuring entrepreneurs winning in today’s marketplace, this video series
goes beyond advice to provide solutions for businesses looking to grow. Like Warren
Brown, founder of Cake Love, others can learn from how technology helped his company
maximize potential with online sales and adapt to the changing business environment.”
The
Strategies for Growth video series highlights key topics that engage small
business owners in issues critical to small business growth. These areas include
Planning for Growth, Government Contracting, Team Building, Marketing, Technology,
Exporting Opportunities, and Disaster Recovery. Also featured is a Profiles of
Success segment that spotlights two successful entrepreneurs.
The
Strategies for Growth video series features a range of growing small businesses
from across the country, including a design firm, a vegetarian restaurant and
bakery, and a green construction company. They are:
Grace
Dittmar, Trusted Mission Solutions of McLean, Va.
Warren Brown, CakeLove of
Washington, D.C.
Don Matzkin and Anthony Bracali, Friday Architects of Philadelphia,
Pa.
Juan and Luis Yépez, Mainstream Global of Lawrence, Mass.
Ann-Marie
Harrington, Embolden of Pawtucket, R.I.
Laurie Benson, Inacom of Madison, Wis.
Bryan
Vulcan, FourFront Design of Rapid City, S.D.
Avinash Rachmale, Lakeshore Engineering
of Detroit, Mich.
Jeanna Sellmeyer and Jennifer Fogg, ASSET Group of Oklahoma
City, Okla.
Jesus & Luisa Mendoza, Mr. Natural of Austin, Texas
Andrew
Kruse, Southwest Windpower of Flagstaff, Ariz.
Mary Tappouni, Breaking Ground
Construction of Jacksonville, Fla.
The SBA provides free
small business counseling and training through a variety of programs, services
and resource partners, located throughout country. Each of the business owners
featured in Strategies for Growth benefited from a variety of training
and resource tools offered by the SBA.
Strategies for
Growth is available on the SBA’s Web site at http://www.sba.gov/strategiesforgrowth
and at the SBA’s YouTube channel at www.YouTube.com/sba.
Each topic is indexed by subject and includes additional resources for entrepreneurs.
